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Start Point Lighthouse

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In 1989, the erosion of the coast caused the fog signal building to collapse. A lot of the area had to be levelled as a result and retaining walls put in place. An electric signal was instead installed on the gallery of the lighthouse (this is itself scheduled for replacement by a more modern system
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The lighthouse originally had the keepers' living accommodation on the ground and first floors but this was removed in 1871 when new keepers' houses were built, either side of the porches to the north and south. In 1882 another cottage was built, detached from the tower, to the east. All three were
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Work began on the automation of Start Point Lighthouse in August 1992 and was carried out by LEC Marine at a cost of £82,754. It was completed in early 1993. After automation, the south keepers' cottage (which had been damaged by a landslip in 1989) was demolished. The station is now monitored and
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which could be turned in the direction of the prevailing wind. The fog signal was upgraded in 1883 by the installation of a two-tone siren; it now sounded thrice every three minutes (high, then low, then high). Around the turn of the century new equipment was installed, including a new pair of 5"
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The light alone was found to be inadequate in fog, and a bell was installed in 1862; the machinery was housed in a small building which still stands on the cliff face to the south-east of the lighthouse. It sounded 48 times every minute, the mechanism being driven by a weight which fell in a tube
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In addition to the main light a fixed red subsidiary light is shone from a window in the tower to mark the Skerries Bank. This was commissioned at the same time as the main light (though initially it shone white, not red, and from a higher window). The original light source was a single
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sirens sounding through a pair of curved vertical copper trumpets. This was in turn replaced by a more powerful 12" siren in 1928, again housed in the same building, sounded from a pair of conical horns housed in a cast-iron turret on the roof. At the same time a pair of
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hitherto constructed, except some of those of Flamborough Head'; the increase in power, compared to the old 45° lenses, was of the order of 3 to 2. Apparatus of the same design were installed the following year in lighthouses at
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In 2018 the rotating optic (which had been in use since 1959) was replaced by a two-tier LED lantern; the old lens was put on display in the adjacent visitor centre.
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The fog siren was housed in a circular building, just to the south of the lighthouse, and sounded (one blast every three minutes) through a roof-mounted horizontal
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Other nearby buildings were used by the lighthouse keepers, who originally could only get on or off the lighthouse by boat, such as the well-house and piggery.
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The lighthouse was powered by oil until 1959, when it was electrified. At the same time the main optic was replaced by a smaller (third-order)
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running down the sheer cliff. A siren replaced the bell in 1877; (the bell was transferred to the lighthouse on
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This article is about the lighthouse in Devon, England. For the lighthouse on Sanday in Orkney, see
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diesel engines were provided to drive the air compressors, replacing an earlier set of engines.
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The original main optic consisted of a rotating octagonal array of eight large (first-order)
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lens, made up of two groups of three asymmetrical panels, which produced a group-flashing
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Littell, Eliakim; Littell, Robert S. (1887). "Lighthouse Work in the United Kingdom".
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Start Point lighthouse including the well house and keepers cottage
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In 1873, a new lantern was built on top of the tower, designed by
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controlled from the Trinity House Operations Control Centre at
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A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World, 1887
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The lighthouse seen from the inland end of the peninsula
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Start Point is one of twenty nine towers designed by
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Start Point lighthouse
Start Point Lighthouse (Orkney)


Start Point
Stokenham
South Hams
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OS grid
SX8294237116
Coordinates
50°13′21″N 3°38′32″W / 50.222439°N 3.642282°W / 50.222439; -3.642282
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James Walker
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Trinity House
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Grade II listed building
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Fog signal
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